Jack Nicholson Quotes
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
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The only people I really hate are parking attendants.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
